KARLA UTSET focuses her practice on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in divestitures, mergers and acquisitions, sales, and general corporate matters.
Prior to joining Sidley, Karla spent over three and a half years as a corporate and transactional associate with a leading global law firm.
Karla received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law, where she served as executive editor of the University of Miami Law Review and received a Dean’s Fellow for Constitutional Law.
Beyond her primary practice, Karla commits her service as an attorney ad litem representing foster youth with Lawyers for Children America.